What to do about Apple's shameful Mac security flawhttp://tinyurl.com/y8qyrkwl

Do not follow the advice in that ComputerWorld article as it is out ofdate.

Apple has already issued a security update to fix the problem. Run AppStore and install the update. It does not require a restart. (Apple saysit will be installed automatically within a day.)

After installing the security update, the bug will be fixed: futureattempts to authenticate as root with any password while the rootaccount is disabled will not enable the root account and set itspassword to the supplied one.

The security update also disables the root account again, no matter whatpassword it had. If you wanted to have the root account enabled, youwill need to do that again, setting a suitably strong password. Most Macusers should NOT do that.